Basak Senova is a curator and designer. She studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University) and attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam. As an assistant professor, she lectured in various universities in Turkey and in 2017 she was the resident fellow at the University of the Arts, Helsinki in co-operation with HIAP and Associate Professorship by the Higher Education Council of Turkey. Curently, she is a Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien) and also teaches a seminar course "Case Studies" for Master students at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien).

Senova has been writing on art, technology and media, initiating and developing projects and curating exhibitions since 1995. She is one of the founding members of NOMAD, as well as the organizer of "ctrl_alt_del" sound art project and "Upgrade!Istanbul". She is the editor of art-ist 6, Kontrol Online Magazine, Lapses book series, UNCOVERED, Aftermath, Obje'ct, The Move, The Translation, Scientific Inquiries, Cultural Massacre, Ahmet Elhan-Ground Glass and Lines of Passage (in medias res) among other publications. Senova is one of the editorial correspondents of ibraaz.org and Turkish correspondent of Flash Art International. She curated Zorlu Center Collection for two years (2011-2012) by also acting as the editor of its publications. Senova acted as an advisory board member of the Turkish Pavilion in Venice Biennial and also the Istanbul Biennial. She is a member of the editorial board of Pass, International Biennial Association’s (IBA) journal.

Senova was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale. She co-curated the UNCOVERED (Cyprus, 2011-2013); the 2ndand 5th Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013 and 2019). She acted as the Art Gallery Chair of (ACM) SIGGRAPH 2014 (Vancouver) the curator of the Helsinki Photography Biennial 2014 and the Jerusalem Show VII: Fractures (2014). In 2015, she curated the Pavilion of Republic of Macedonia at the 56th Venice Biennale, in 2016, Lines of Passage (in medias res) Exhibition in Lesvos and in 2019 the inaugural exhibition of B7L9, Climbing through the Tide in Tunis. Senova completed a long-term research-based art project CrossSectionsthat took place in Vienna, Helsinki, and Stockholm (2017- 2019). At the moment she is running a research-based educational programme "The Octopus Programme" at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien).